> Using text.encode("ascii", "ignore") should absolutely work. You could also
> just write the file in UTF-8 if you don't absolutely need ascii by using
> text.encode("utf-8").
>
> Hugo
You're right. It does work. I forgot to assign the result to a variable:
text = text.encode("ascii", "ignore"
Benjamin Fishbein wrote:
> I was trying to write text to a file and got the following error:
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in
> position 5495: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> I tried several things I found online, such as:
> text.encode("ascii", "ignore")
> w
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Benjamin Fishbein wrote:
> I was trying to write text to a file and got the following error:
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in
> position 5495: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> I tried several things I found online, such as:
>
> t
I was trying to write text to a file and got the following error:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position
5495: ordinal not in range(128)
I tried several things I found online, such as:
text.encode("ascii", "ignore")
which gave me the same error
and
text.rep
